Item 7716Bestiarium
Graz: Akademische Druck. Soft cover. 4p + facsimile Publishers stiff wrappers. Nice facsimile in color. Front wrapper a little sunned. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.
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Item 7714Dioskurides Codex Neapolitanus
Graz: Akademische Druck, 1988. Soft cover. 4p + facsimile Publishers stiff wrappers. Lower front corner a little bent. Nice facsimile in color. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.
Item 2586Report of Court Proceedings in the Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites" Heard Before the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R .Moscow, March 2-13, 1938,
Moscow: People's Commissariat of Justice of the U.S.S.R, 1938. 800p, Original gray cloth backed paper covered boards. An historically interesting trial of Trotskyists who among things were accused of killing Maxim Gorky. From the American scholar and pacifist Library of Henry LeRoy Finch (1921-1997) with his bookplate on the inside.....
Item 003474Samuel Pepys and His House: A Study in the Domestic Arts of the XVIIth Century
London: Tredegars, 1913. R.H. Townsend. Hardcover. Frontispiece, [2]. Light blue paper covered boards. Nicely illustrated. Some wear to the spine as a result of use otherwise internally a fresh clean copy. From the Library of the Pepys scholar Walter Whitear with his bookplate on the inside front board and with.....
Item 2534A History of the American Revolution: comprehending all the principal events both in the field and in the cabinet
Baltimore: Franklin Betts, 1822. xi, 592p: xiii, 510p. Contemporary boards with untrimmed edges. Early signature of Stephen Emmons 1822 on the title page in both volumes. Second edition. First printed in 1819. O. Rich #31 "Although the name Paul Allen appears on the title, this work was written by John.....
Item 000914Medeltidens lärda värld.
Stockholm: Stockholm: Carmina, 1978, 1978. Hardcover. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 280p. An excellent overview of humanism in the Middle Ages. Text entirely in Swedish. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Item 003400Anmerkungen eines Officiers in R*ndsb*rg über die im Kopenhagener Magazin für patriotische Skribenten eingerückte Noten wieder den Kriegsstand in Dännemark
Copenhagen: N/A, 1771. Unbound. 30p. A scarce work relating to the freedom of the press. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall.
Item 6950Intimate Society Letters of the Eighteenth Century
Stanley Paul & Co, 1910. Hardcover. Frontispiece, xiv, 327p; viii, 329-696p. Burgundy morocco boards and a slightly brown spine. Richly gilt dentelles along the marbled end papers. BINDING SIGNED RIVIERE & SONS. INCLUDES A GIFT INSCRIPTION BY THE DUKE SIGNED "From John Xmas 1910" ON THE INSIDE FRONT BOARD. The.....
Item 2547Interesting events in the History of the United States
New Haven: J.W. Barber, 1828. Frontispiece foldout map, 229 [1],xxiv. Contemporary sheep. Map torn, but present. Nicely illustrated. Second edition. First printed in 1827. John Warner Barber (1798 ? 1885) was an American engraver and historian. Hinges worn and headband rubbed. Spine label chipped. Foxed throughout.
Item 10197Danskvenius: Eines warhaften Handwerkmannes Beantwortung auf die falschen Beschuldigungen, die einer unter der Masque eines Handwerksmannes denen Ämtern zu Last geleget
Kopenhagen: Johann Rudolph Thiele, 1771. 68p. Bibliotheca Danica vol II. col 1022. On freedom of the press.
Item 6920Heliand und Genesis
Halle: Max Niemeyer, 1910. Hardcover. xxxii, 290p. Quarter calf. From the Library of Hermann Collitz (1855-1935) with his bookplate on the inside front board. An eminent German historical linguist and Indo-Europeanist. The volume is full with marginal annotations in pencil and brown ink; probably by Collitz. Also includes inserted slips.....
Item 10312On the Origin of the Himalaya Mountains
Calcutta: Photo-Litho Office Survey of India, 1912. 26p. Publishers paper covered boards with a cloth spine. This paper is an amplification of the lecture given at a meeting of the Astronomical Society of India in Calcutta on February 9th, 1912. Sir Sidney Gerald Burrard, (1860 - 1943) was a British.....
Item 10164The Old-World House Its Furniture & Decoration
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1924. Jacket Condition: Very Good. Frontispiece, ix, 307p: Frontispiece, 371p. Publishers original tan cloth over boards with a well preserved dust jacket. A nicely illustrated classic work. Chips to the dust jacket at the top edge on the rear cover and at the corners on.....
Item 003414Ave Roma Immortalis
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1898. Hardcover. 2 volumes, Frontispiece, 332p: frontispiece, 344p. Contemporary brown quarter calf over marbleized boards. Bound by Charles E. Lauriat Co. Boston with their stamp on the inside front marble paper. Includes twenty-nine photogravure plates in addition to numerous illustrations. A rather fresh clean set.....
Item 10261The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo
London: Richard Bentley, 1866. Fifteenth. xxiii, 639p. 19th century polished calf with marbled end papers and richly gilt spine. Sir Edward Creasy (1812 - 1878) was an English historian and jurist. Some light scattered foxing to the preliminaries. Old inscription on the front blank, General wear to the bindings.
Item 7465History of the Expedition to Russia undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon
Philladelphia: E. Littell, 1825. Hardcover. Foldout map, 546p. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Top panel of spine professional rebacked. First published in two volumes in Paris 1824. The author, Philip de Segur (1780-1873) was a French General and historian.Foldout map signed PE Hamm (Phineas Eldridge Hamm (1799-1861) a Philadelphia.....
Item 7130Denkschrift über die Wiener October-Revolution.
Wien: Verlags-Eigenthum des Verfassers, 1849. Hardcover. 2 vol. vi, 480p, 481-908p. Contemporary calf with a gilt ruled spine. Includes a detailed account of the conditions from March 13th to October 5th, 1848 based on available documents and the authors own experiences. Some light rubbing to the hinges and upper corners.....
Item 10569Memorial de Sainte Helene. Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena
London: Henry Colburn, 1823. iv, 395p: vi, 374p: v, 378p:376p: iv, 319p: 384p: v, 334p: iv, 319p. 19th century quarter red morocco with richly gilt spines over speckled boards and marbleized end papers. Signed bindings by Emile Rousselle with his small rubber stamp on the verso of the front marbled.....
Item 000982The Ancient and Classicising Finger-Rings and Gems.
Netherlands: Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben Publisher, 1993, 1993. Soft cover. Printer Wrapper. As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 82p, xxviii. A detailed study with 27 pages of illustrations. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Item 007789Gespräche In Dem Reiche derer Todten, Neun und dreyßigste Entrevuë, Zwischen Zweyen Königen von Polen, nemlich Sigismundo III. und seinem Sohn Joh. Casimiro II
Leipzig: 1721. No Binding. 468-542p unbound. Light scattered foxing. David Faßmann (1685-1744) was a writer, historiographer and publicist. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
Item 10407The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
London: S.A. and H. Gody, 1809. Frontispiece, xvi, foldout map, 384p: frontispiece, xii, foldout map, 419p: x, foldout map, 416p: engraved title page, x, 390p, [2]: x, 423p: engraved title page, 388p: engraved title page xi, 443p: engraved title page, xii, 392p: engraved title page, xi, 392p. Contemporary calf with.....
Item 007841An Appeal to the unprejudiced, concerning the present Discontents Occasioned by the late Convention with Spain
London: T. Cooper, 1739. No Binding. 32p. unbound with stitched back. Contemporary signature of Samuel Woodruff on the title page.Some light marginal toning to the title page, otherwise internally clean. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall.
Item 003259The British Inheritance. A treasury of Historic Documents
University of California Press, 1999. Hardcover. x, 150p. Profusely illustrated. A fresh clean copy. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall.
Item 6736The Winter Queen
London: Constable & Company, 1912. Hardcover. Frontispiece, x, 432p. Publishers cloth. LENGTHY HANDWRITTEN INSCRIPTION ON THE INSIDE FRONT BLANK SIGNED BY MARY HAY. Very light general wear. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall.
Item 2558Lectures on the Philosophy of History
London: Henry Bohn, 1861. xxxix, 477p. Publishers original cloth over boards. Old sticker at the foot of the spine. Second edition. First published by Bohn in 1857. But still the standard translation of this work by Hegel. John Sibree (1795-1877) was a minister and translator. Small chip to the headband.....